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Nothing in this world is ever really new, yet everything is in some way different from all that has gone before.
Only philosophers were interested in unanswerable questions:
News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.
love was friendship’s deadliest enemy,
No one had ever told her, and she had not yet discovered, that when one has to ask ‘Am I really in love?’ the answer is always ‘No’. ***
The mental evolution of any race is conditioned, even dominated, by physical factors which that race almost invariably takes for granted as part of the natural order of things.
I’ve always argued that there’s an inverse correlation between a country’s degree of civilisation and the restraints it puts on its press.’
‘Any of you who are familiar with domestic American affairs may know that Florida’s claim to be the Sunshine State is strongly disputed by some of the other forty-seven members of the Union. I don’t suppose New York or Maine or Connecticut are very serious contenders, but the State of California regards the Florida claim as an almost personal affront, and is always doing its best to refute it. The Floridians hit back by pointing to the famous Los Angeles smogs, then the Californians say, with careful anxiety, “Isn’t it about time you had another hurricane?”
and the Floridians reply, “You can count on us when you want any earthquake relief.” So it goes on, and this is where my friend Commander Dawson came into the picture.
to understand the future, it was necessary to know the past.
